[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Leonard Boyle]

The new tape drives are holding a lot more data per cart. With the LTO5 and
LTO6  tape drive you can even read and write files like you would on disk
with Linear Tape File System (LTFS).






http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs102114-story05.html

http://www.lto.org/technology/ltfs


The existing LTO6 tape drives can store over 6 TB on a tape cart. They are
saying that the LTO7 will be up to 16TB later this year.


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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:48:11 -0500, William Sutton <william at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >  +1.  Having been a Comcast customer (I would say "disgruntled", but that
> >> would be redundant), and having used HughesNet at my in-laws', as much
> as I
> >> hate Comcast, you would die of old age waiting for data to come back
> over
> >> Hughes.  Even ssh over Hughes is terribly slow.  Nevermind something
> like
> >> Flash....
> >>
> >
> > Testimonials at the Hughesnet website indicate that their customers enjoy
> > having something faster than dial-up. They don't mention satellite's
> > round-trip delay.
> >
> > Could anything be worse?
> >
> > Some of us remember the days when 20 WPM CW over ham radio was considered
> > fast. Hold a minute while I convert that to a baud rate... ummmm, on
> second
> > thought, perhaps someone else has already done the math... Hah! Here it
> is,
> > from W8JI:
> > http://www.w8ji.com/cw_bandwidth_described.htm
> >
> > 60 WPM is perhaps about 50 baud. So 20 WPM (faster than I was ever able
> to
> > copy) is about 17 baud. Seems terribly slow by today's standards, or even
> > compared to 110-baud early dial-up.
> >
> > Even slower were the semaphore and wigwag methods of flag communication:
> > http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/historic_signaling_new.pdf
> >
> > For REALLY primitive rapid long-distance communication check out RFC
> 1149.
> > The data transmission rate? Proper implementation might yield 9102
> Mbit/s,
> > according to this Wikipedia article:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
> >
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